Study shows sharp increase in rate of unintentional ingestions of recreational drugs among young children since 2000

A caller survey reveals that unintentional ingestions of recreational drugs by young children person accrued dramatically successful the past 25 years. Researchers astatine the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute astatine Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Central Ohio Poison Center analyzed calls to U.S. poison centers and recovered that the recreational cause ingestion complaint per 100,000 U.S. children younger than 6 accrued 3,307% from 2000 to 2024, with a accelerated summation opening successful 2013.